{"id":2039,"date":"2022-10-07T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:07:08","slug":"crypto-scam-digest-october-7th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/07\/crypto-scam-digest-october-7th-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Scam Digest \u2013 October 7th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kim Kardashian Settles Charges for Illegal Crypto Promotion<\/strong><br>Kardashian paid $1.26 million in penalties for promoting EthereumMax on social media without disclosing how much she was paid to do so.   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2022-183\">SEC.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C<strong>lass Action Lawsuit Filed Against Just A Bit of Coin<\/strong> <br>Plaintiffs claim that Just A Bit of Coin promised to build bitcoin mining rigs for customers but never delivered, blaming supply chain issues.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classaction.org\/news\/class-action-lawsuit-accuses-just-a-bit-of-coin-ltd-of-running-bitcoin-mining-machine-scam\">ClassAction.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brazilian Police, US Homeland Security Bust Crypto Fraud Ring<\/strong> <br>A multi-year investigation has ended with the execution of 20 search and seizure warrants against a crypto scam ring based in Curitaba, Brazil. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/us-brazil-investigation-leads-disruption-transnational-cryptocurrency-fraud-ring\">ICE.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malicious DApp Is Stealing Crypto from Other Crypto Scammers<\/strong> \u201cWater Labbu\u201d is inserting malicious code into crypto scam websites and emptying the wallets of visitors of those sites before they even have a chance to get scammed the usual way. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_us\/research\/22\/j\/water-labbu-abuses-malicious-dapps-to-steal-cryptocurrency.html\">Trend Micro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kardashian Settles Charges for Illegal Crypto PromotionKardashian paid $1.26 million in penalties for promoting EthereumMax on social media without disclosing how much she was paid to do so. SEC.gov Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Just A Bit of Coin Plaintiffs claim that Just A Bit of Coin promised to build bitcoin mining rigs for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/07\/crypto-scam-digest-october-7th-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crypto Scam Digest \u2013 October 7th, 2022<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}